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| Brother, where art thou? by Laikwalâssê | 4 Review(s) |
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| pipinheart | Reviewed Chapter: 11 on 4/6/2010 |
| Very nice... They are back..Its true they are part of each others soul... Author Reply: thank you. Yes, they are back. It´s about time for all to relax again. Lai | |
| Larner | Reviewed Chapter: 11 on 2/25/2010 |
| Bless the three of them, now finally all healing! Author Reply: yes they are, at last. It was high time after a long road. Thanks for the review. Lai | |
| Jay of Lasgalen | Reviewed Chapter: 11 on 2/13/2010 |
| Yay! They're awake! Perhaps now they can heal at last ... Jay Author Reply: yes they are indeed, it´s high time. Thanks for reviewing and still reading. Only one or two chapter to go. Lai | |
| Shemyaza | Reviewed Chapter: 11 on 2/11/2010 |
| Nicely written, quite absorbing, however I can't help but feel dreadfully sorry for these three. The amount of angst and whumping they get from us fanfiction writers, it's a wonder that they manage to function in a Middle-earth torn by strife and war at all! On a serious note, Tolkien wrote so little about these two sons of Elrond. He didn't even really state outright that they were twins, just that they were very alike. All he said about them was: "So much alike were they, the sons of Elrond, that few could tell them apart: dark-haired, grey-eyed, and their faces elven-fair, clad alike in bright mail beneath cloaks of silver-grey" (Tolkien 761) There is a popular theory that twins do share a bond of some kind. Many identical twins experience the same thought patterns because of their shared genes and there are some studies that appear to back that up with real life instances. The mysterious similarities in the thought patterns of identical twins are truly mind-boggling. Besides similar thoughts, many twins experience a unique pathological bond. Pathologically, twins share a bond unlike any other. Many twins experience ESP and the ability to share one another's consciousness (Bowles-Reyer). This is known as the nonlocal or universal mind. A physicist named J.S. Bell developed Bell's Theorem, a hypothesis explaining nonlocal mind. It said that when two subatomic particles come into contact with each other and are then separated, a change in one particle could cause a similar change in the other, instantly and to the same degree. In the 1960's, to test this hypothesis, researchers pointed a light at one twin's eye and found that the other twin's brain-wave pattern changed in response. Besides tests, many people's personal experiences have helped to prove Bell's Theorem. Tolkien never states that Elladan and Elrohir were identical twins, but given that they were so alike I suppose they must have been, rather than fraternal twins who still have a bond, just not as deep. Whatever the facts or reasons, those two poor twin sons of Elrond get beaten within an inch of their lives, shot by arrows, tortured almost unto death, poisoned and suffer hideous injuries on a regular basis. I imagine that far from staying in Middle-earth after their sister died, they probably hotfooted it over to the West just for a bit of peace! Author Reply: wow, what a long review. Thank you so much for it. And I´m very glad you find the story interesting, but here I must say it is only just that - a story...fiction... and you are right again Elrond must really be the best healer in all of Middle Earth otherwise our poor twins would not have survived the cruel stories we writer launch at them. I and many others love to write about them in unbelievable situations and obviously many readers like to read about it. Hope the twins will not leave too early for the west; who shall we torture instead? *g* If the stories are realistic or not does not really matter. As long as all have fun....thank you nonetheless for your thoughts, I really appreciate them and hope you will enjoy the rest of the story. Lai | |